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"Ride just as if you were out hunting the first time around. After that, and not before, you may begin to look about you and see what the others are doing."
This sage hint for the Grand National was given by an old trainer to Count Charles Kinsky, who won the race with his own mare, Zoedone, in 1883. Another scrap of the lore which has grown up since 1839 around the hardest steeplechase in the world—four and one-half miles over 30 jumps at Aintree, England—is not to ride a favorite....
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